A drunken UK pensioner has narrowly avoided jail, after she left a trail of destruction in her wake while driving nearly two times over the legal limit down suburban UK streets.

Footage of 71-year-old, Carol Rose's drunken rampage was captured on her car's dash cam in Liverpool.

The video was used in court, leading to her receiving an eight month prison sentence that has been suspended for two years, by the Liverpool Crown Court yesterday.

The disturbing dash cam footage shows Merseyside resident, Rose, driving from her home on a sunny April 26 afternoon.

She then goes on to hit multiple car's side mirrors and slam into a parked Jeep Cherokee, writing it off in the process.

Perhaps most alarmingly Rose is shown driving past a Liverpool school on her erratic journey.

She is finally halted when she ploughs straight into the back of a parked van not far from her house.

Concerned witnesses pulled the 71-year-old from her vehicle then quickly alerted police after smelling alcohol, reports the Liverpool Echo.

Rose claimed that she only had "two glasses of wine", but after undergoing testing by police it was found she had 156mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood, a figure that is almost twice the UK's legal limit.

Ms Rose received her suspended sentence due to having a clean record since she began driving in 1967.

She has been banned from driving for three years and is required to attend a 10-day Rehabilitation Activity as part of her sentence.

A Kiwi cheerleading coach has slammed a series of distressing videos which show young cheerleaders being forced into the splits by their coaches and teammates at a US high school.

The videos show eight cheerleaders at Denver's East High School repeatedly being pushed into splits while their arms are held up by teammates, KUSA-TV reported today.

In New Zealand, the founder of Napier's Bay City Cheerleaders, Christine Crowe, called the practices shown in the video "inhumane and unethical".

She stressed that no coach who has had proper training would condone such actions, saying her coaches use vocal encouragement to help the team stretch, but never physical force.

"You don't sit there on top of another person, the athletes wellbeing is always at the forefront of our teaching," Ms Crowe told 1 NEWS NOW.

Cheerleading coaches and school administrators at Denver's East High School were placed on leave and police have opened an investigation following the release of the videos showing high school cheerleaders screaming in pain while being pushed into splits during practice.

In one video, a girl repeatedly asks her coach to "please stop." KUSA-TV says the videos were shot on the phones of two team members and were sent anonymously to the station.